HQ Cassette Tape

I came up with this after feeling a bit left out in the Reel To Reel tape world in music recording. I was fed up with plugins that allegedly recreated the much debated "warmth" and "saturation". Well I had a decent cassette recorder, about the size of a VCR from the late 80's. But as "tape heads" know, cassette tape runs at like 1.7 inches per second, nowhere near the low pro sound of 7.5 of a Reel To Reel. My song was hiss laden, which could be good or bad according to your taste but I was trying to be alittle more Hi-Fi. So I took the track into an audio editor such as Goldwave and lowered it by about 4 octaves, recorded it into my cassette machine, reimported it into Goldwave, raised it 4 octaves, and presto no hiss. Just be careful going too low as I did, it was too low that the cassette recorder could not respond and it left harsh pops everywhere in the song. I don't know if this makes it any closer to 7.5 or 15 ips, but it can help you make more out of your cassettes. I am sure the EQ Curve is no where as good as a professional tape machine, but thats what other plugins are for.